Email Author Melissa Anderson

2009 Stories by Melissa Anderson

• The Blind Side

  published November 19, 2009

  Another poor, massive, uneducated African-American teenager lumbers onto screens this month, two weeks after Precious and obviously... More >>

• 35 Shots of Rum

  published November 19, 2009

  Recent American films about families, like last year's Rachel Getting Married and Revolutionary Road, all too often pierce... More >>

• Flick Pick

  published November 19, 2009

  Another poor, massive, uneducated African-American teenager lumbers onto screens this month, two weeks after Precious and obviously timed... More >>

• Good Hair

  published October 22, 2009

  Don Imus's hateful, racist 2007 remarks about "nappy-headed hos" underscored the immense fear of, and fascination with, the hair follicles of... More >>

• Flick Pick

  published October 22, 2009

  Don Imus’s hateful, racist 2007 remarks about “nappy-headed hos” underscored the immense fear of, and fascination with, the hair... More >>

• The September Issue

  published September 10, 2009

  When, in the early '00s, I worked as a freelancer for a publication two floors below Vogue — this was pre-Devil Wears Prada... More >>

• Taking Woodstock

  published August 27, 2009

  If you remember Woodstock, you probably weren't there," the expression goes. And if you were, can you please stop gassing on about it? Aquarian... More >>

• Surveillance

  published July 16, 2009

  Jennifer Lynch — like Sofia Coppola on occasion — has been tarred with the unfounded claim that her films get made only because of... More >>

• Ghosts of Girlfriends Past

  published April 30, 2009

  Two weeks after jowly Matthew Perry transformed into pretty Zac Efron to relive his adolescence in 17 Again, Warner Bros. releases... More >>

• Sugar

  published April 30, 2009

  Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck have transformed some of the saggiest, most cliched genres with smarts, non-screechy politics, superb acting and... More >>

• Confessions of a Shopaholic

  published February 12, 2009

  The Confessions of a Shopaholic we need right now would be a handheld doc featuring former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain sobbing... More >>